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Kaushalya Gajasinghe and Nisala Tharaka who build up Mahinda's reply with an unbeaten 103 runs partnership for the sixth wicket cross for runs
This limestone pavement runs into the sea at Cocklawburn - eroded into oblong blocks by rain and waves. The limestone blocks are called 'clints' and the cracks between them are called 'grykes'. When such pavements occur inland - as they do in Yorkshire Dales National Park - the grykes are usually filled with rare plants which find shelter and a limestone environment.
Limestone pavements are quite rare globally. They are formed from the remains of 300 million year old coral reefs, or of limestone-rich-muds where trillions of minute creatures (forameniferans) died and their tiny skeletons drifted down to form marine deposits many metres thick.
Re-runs
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Courtesy Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
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New video
The sick passenger - rondiorio.com/2010/08/13/the-sick-passenger/
Singing Webb and Bacharach - rondiorio.com/2010/08/01/singing-webb-and-bacharach/
Start of the 5K and 10K Red Dog Run went south from the stadium on Choctaw Ave going by the 2D horse figures.
Makers in the Jocelyn H. Lee Innovation Lab were challenged to transform potential energy into kinetic energy. (That's fancy-talk for playing with marbles.) Marble runs were created with track sections 3D printed on the Gigabot, tracks folded from cardstock pre-cut on the laser cutter and a variety of hand-made and found items. And tape - lots and lots of tape.
Spira 3-wheel Foam Vehicle 250cc X-Prize competition vehicle variant, driven on city streets, country roads and highways of Chonburi, Thailand. Spira vehicle PP003 driven 1,170 kilometers (727miles) over the course of a few days during March 2010, demonstrating as an Alternative Class X-Prize contender a fully operational running vehicle, capable performance test runs and safety maneuvers throughout real world driving situations in Thailand.
Waiting for Arrival of 29th Annual ROLLING THUNDER RIDE at Arlington Memorial Bridge and Lincoln Memorial Circle, NW, Washington DC on Sunday morning, 29 May 2016 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Elvert Barnes ROLLING THUNDER / MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/RollingThunder
Elvert Barnes 2016 MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND / Washington DC docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/MDW2016
Makers in the Jocelyn H. Lee Innovation Lab were challenged to transform potential energy into kinetic energy. (That's fancy-talk for playing with marbles.) Marble runs were created with track sections 3D printed on the Gigabot, tracks folded from cardstock pre-cut on the laser cutter and a variety of hand-made and found items. And tape - lots and lots of tape.
NYC: Central Park / Great Lawn
HBO Graceland vs HBO Sports (season final game)
Nikon D700 | Tamron 28-300@155 | Æ’6 | 1/640s | ISO3200 | Handheld
The Postcard
An Art Colour postcard that was published by Valentine & Sons Ltd. of Dundee and London. The artwork was by E. H. Thompson, Lakeland Artist.
On the back of the card the publishers have printed:
"We shall continue steadfast
in faith and duty till our task
is done"
- The Prime Minister.
The quote is from Winston Churchill's speech given to allied delegates at St. James's Palace on June 12th, 1941. The speech runs as follows:
'Our air power will continue to teach the
German homeland that war is not all loot
and triumph.
We shall aid and stir the people of every
conquered country to resistance and revolt.
We shall break up and derange every effort
which Hitler makes to systematize and
consolidate his subjugations.
He will find no peace, no rest, no halting place,
no parley. And if, driven to desperate hazards,
he attempts invasion of the British Isles, as well
he may, we shall not flinch from the supreme
trial.
With the help of God, of which we must all feel
daily conscious, we shall continue steadfast in
faith and duty till our task is done.'
Information is also provided relating to the artwork:
Honister Crag and Pass -
The high road between
Borrowdale and Buttermere
Valley.
The lake seen is Crummock
Water. Buttermere is hidden
by the shoulder of the Crag.'
The card was posted in Ambleside using two 1d. stamps on Thursday the 24th. August 1944. It was sent to:
Miss Coe,
16, Victoria Street,
Wolverton,
Bucks.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Smallwood Hotel,
Ambleside.
24/ 8/ 44.
Having a good time,
weather not too bad.
Haven't been here yet
but hope to go next
week.
Love,
Win."
Eighty years later, the Smallwood House Hotel is still going strong.
The Liberation of Paris
So what else happened on the day that Win posted the card?
Well, in the evening of the 24th. August 1944, forces of Free France were the first of the Allies to enter Paris.
USS Harder
Also on that day, the American submarine USS Harder was depth charged and sunk in Dasol Bay by Japanese warships.
The Sinking of a U-Boat
Also on that day, German submarine U-445 was depth charged and sunk in the Bay of Biscay by the frigate HMS Louis.
A Massacre in France
Also on the 24th. August 1944, at Buchères in France, men of the 51st. SS-Brigade massacred 68 civilians. Half of the victims were women, ranging in age from 6 months to above seventy years.
A Computer for Harvard
Also on that day, the Harvard Mark I electro-mechanical computer, developed and built by IBM, was formally presented to Harvard University.
Gregory Jarvis
The day also marked the birth in Detroit of Gregory Jarvis.
Gregory was an engineer and astronaut who died in 1986 in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
-- The Explosion of the Challenger
On the 28th. January 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.
The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 a.m. EST. It was the first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft while in flight.
The mission was the 10th. flight for the orbiter and the 25th. flight of the Space Shuttle fleet. The crew was scheduled to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley's Comet while they were in orbit, in addition to taking schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe into space under the Teacher In Space program.
The latter task resulted in a higher-than-usual media interest in and coverage of the mission; the launch and subsequent disaster were seen live in many schools across the United States.
The cause of the disaster was the failure of the primary and secondary O-ring seals in a joint in the shuttle's right solid rocket booster (SRB). The record-low temperatures on the morning of the launch had stiffened the rubber O-rings, reducing their ability to seal the joints.
Shortly after liftoff, the seals were breached, and hot pressurized gas from within the SRB leaked through the joint and burned through the aft attachment strut connecting it to the external propellant tank (ET), then into the tank itself.
The collapse of the ET's internal structures and the rotation of the SRB that followed threw the shuttle stack, traveling at a speed of Mach 1.92, into a direction that allowed aerodynamic forces to tear the orbiter apart.
Both SRBs detached from the now-destroyed ET and continued to fly uncontrollably until the range safety officer destroyed them.
The crew compartment, human remains, and many other fragments from the shuttle were recovered from the ocean floor after a three-month search-and-recovery operation.
The exact timing of the deaths of the crew is unknown, but several crew members are thought to have survived the initial breakup of the spacecraft.
The orbiter had no escape system, and the impact of the crew compartment at terminal velocity with the ocean surface was too violent to be survivable.
The disaster resulted in a 32-month hiatus in the Space Shuttle program. President Ronald Reagan created the Rogers Commission to investigate the accident. The commission criticized NASA's organizational culture and decision-making processes that had contributed to the accident.
Test data since 1977 demonstrated a potentially catastrophic flaw in the SRBs' O-rings, but neither NASA nor SRB manufacturer Morton Thiokol had addressed this known defect.
NASA managers also disregarded engineers' warnings about the dangers of launching in cold temperatures, and did not report these technical concerns to their superiors.
As a result of this disaster, NASA established the Office of Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance, and arranged for deployment of commercial satellites from expendable launch vehicles rather than from a crewed orbiter.
To replace Challenger, the construction of a new Space Shuttle orbiter, Endeavour, was approved in 1987, and the new orbiter first flew in 1992. Subsequent missions were launched with redesigned SRBs, and their crews wore pressurized suits during ascent and reentry.
Note: Could they not have enclosed the Challenger in a plastic shroud which could have been heated? Given the cost of the whole venture in terms of money and lives, the additional expenditure would have been trivial.
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